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​New Year's Greetings, Brothers and Sisters!. I wish to share with you a few thoughts taken from the Gospel of today, THE 2nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.What a friend we have in Jesus!What a friend Jesus had in John the Baptist! Why am I so enthusiastic about John?Because he was the man chosen by God to prepare the way of the Lord – when the Lord happ...

​Coming! Coming! Coming!......Come!.....Gone! This describes the huge, even extravagant, build-up to Christmas, it's brief but joyful celebration, and then it's all over. This closure is eloquently stated by the return to school at the end of the vacation. To some it may seem that the Church wraps up Christmas neatly by celebrating the So...

THE COMING OF THE MAGIWhat a strange story St Matthew tells us in his gospel: Magi (magicians or wise men?) following a star. How on earth do you follow a star? And how can a star stop over a particular house? If a star or meteor stopped right over Barbados, everyone in the island would say "it was just above my house". St Luke's account of Bethleh...

​The theme for Pope Francis' annual World Day of Peace message for 2018 is: "Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in Search of Peace."In his 2018 Message for the World Day of Peace. . . (January 1) Pope Francis urges us to turn a "contemplative gaze" toward our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters and to respond to their plight with four "milep...

​The trouble with pictures of the Holy Family is that they always look so holy. Even when they had the terrible experience of rushing off to Egypt as refugees, most illustrations give the impression that they're going off on holiday with Mary sitting side-saddle, sedately holding the baby.This first Sunday after Christmas, is celebrated as the feas...